Wednesday, March 29, 2017

White female students at Pitzer College
in Los Angeles have been told by women of color (African-American and
Latinas) to stop wearing hoop earrings because to do so is cultural
appropriation. According to a Latina group on campus, white girls
wearing hoop earrings exploits black and brown cultures. Really.

When questioned about [the art work above] by one
confused student, Alegria Martinez, Jacquelyn Aguilera, and Stefania
Gallo-Gonzalez addressed the school in emails explaining the problem.

“The black and brown bodies who
typically wear hooped earrings, (and other accessories like winged
eyeliner, gold name plate necklaces, etc) are typically viewed as
ghetto, and are not taken seriously by others in their daily lives,
Martinez wrote. White people have actually exploited the culture and
made it into fashion,” she added.

Martinez, who is a member of Latinx
Student Union, sent an email to the entire student body of Pitzer
College explaining why she feels only women of color should be
allowed to wear hoop earrings.

“The art (photo above) was created by myself and a
few other women of color after being tired and annoyed with the
reoccurring theme of white women appropriating styles...that belong
to the black and brown folks who created the culture.

“The culture actually comes from a historical background of
oppression and exclusion.

“The black and brown bodies who typically wear hooped earrings,
(and other accessories like winged eyeliner, gold name plate
necklaces, etc) are typically viewed as ghetto, and are not taken
seriously by others in their daily lives.

Because of this, I see our winged eyeliner, lined lips, and
big hoop earrings serving as symbols as an everyday act of
resistance, especially here at the Claremont Colleges.

“Meanwhile we wonder, why should white girls be able to take
part in this culture (wearing hoop earrings just being one case of
it) and be seen as cute/aesthetic/ethnic.

“White people have actually exploited the culture and made it
into fashion,” she explained.

I guess it makes sense to her.

One cannot help but wonder if Martinez and her fellow activists
wear jeans to school. Perhaps that's a practice that she should cease
since their creator, Jacob Davis, and his partner, Levi Strauss, were
white guys. Or is cultural appropriation another of those things only white people can do?

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

In a statement that shows not only her
far-left disillusionment but also her ignorance, New York City
Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito recently compared the
enforcement of immigration laws to ethnic cleansing.

“I think you said something that’s
very powerful here about ethnic cleansing,” Mark-Viverito said at a
recent hearing. “I think in the last couple of weeks we’ve seen
very, very, very clearly what the ultimate goal is of this
administration. There clearly is a sense of purging… of
implementing policies to purge certain groups of people from this
country.”

Asked about the use of the very strong
phrase “ethnic cleansing” Mark-Viverito defended her position.

“When we’re looking at the policies and what’s clearly being
verbalized and articulated by this administration unapologetically..
there seems to be a real clear intent that certain types of people
are being focused on with the express intent of getting them and
removing them from this country,” she told reporters.

“It’s very very strong language, but really there is clear
intent in what it is that they’re trying to do,” Mark-Viverito
added. “And we’re going to push back against that.”

She is correct that there are certain types of people who are
being targeted for removal from the country. They would be people who
are here illegally, in violation of our decades old immigration laws.
I'm not sure what part of that would be considered ethnic cleansing
since there is no particular ethnicity mentioned in the immigration
laws as written nor in the recently renewed enforcement of them.

What she doesn't seem to understand is that the Trump
administration has written no new immigration laws. They are merely
allowing ICE and the Border Patrol to effectively enforce current
laws. Does she really believe our current immigration laws are
tantamount to “ethnic cleansing?” Really?

I'm thinking not. She's making a bold public (albeit ignorant)
statement to gain attention. New York has declared itself a sanctuary
city and left-wing politicians are going nuts because Trump simply
doesn't care what they say. He's enforcing immigration laws anyway –
even in The Big Apple.

People like this woman are grossly exaggerating statements in an
effort to force federal authorities to stop enforcing the law as
written. The problem with immigration is not the laws themselves but
the fact that for decades our government has refused to enforce them
stringently. And now that a particular President is doing just that,
a Republican President that is, the left is unable to deal with it. Their attitude of “Let anyone in and let everyone stay” is one of
the things that will eventually destroy this great nation. And they
hate it that Trump and the Republicans are fighting them on it.

The logic (or lack thereof) of some elected officials is baffling.
Even more baffling, however, is the fact that they keep getting
re-elected.

Monday, March 6, 2017

Two professors at Columbia University
recently penned a letter to the university president saying that
faculty and students are “chronically and deeply depressed” over
Donald Trump's election and his election is the cause of the recent
rise in student suicides.

Really. They said that.

“We know no one at Columbia who is
not upset, chronically and deeply, since the election. We know this
is true of the administration,” professors Robert Pollack and Letty
Moss-Salentijn wrote. “We know this true of the students, and the
cluster of suicides this month can have no other meaning."

“But what of ourselves, and what of our colleagues; that is,
what of the faculty? So, Mr. President, we are asking you how we, the
faculty, may embody what the university values, with a sense of full
obligation and with the assurance of full recognition.

Faculty do not have places, times, or administrative permission to
acknowledge our own fears to each other,” the letter laments,
noting that “venues for such quiet, difficult conversations are
very hard to find on our campus.”

The letter goes on...

“Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451 comes
close to where we are today. In this vision of the near future,
firemen and state agents are ordered to set fires, ordered to burn
remaining caches of hidden books wherever they are found.”

I can't help but wonder if they
understand the irony of what that last paragraph says...?

Here's my letter to the damaged
professors and their depressed student body.

Dear “Depressed,”

I can't help but wonder if at some
point in your lives you were told that you should never have to be
disappointed and you will always get your way.

That seems to be the only valid
explanation for your “chronic and deep” depression over the
recent Presidential election. And while the learned professors have
no real evidence to support their claim of increased student suicides
because of Trump's election, if their claim is true it means your
parents and your teachers have failed you.

They have failed to teach you that life
is always going to have setbacks and disappointments and that you
simply overcome them and move on.

They have failed to teach you that
you have absolutely no right to not be disappointed, offended, hurt,
or ridiculed.

They have failed to teach you that you
cannot and will not be protected from life. Sometimes life is great.
Sometimes it sucks but then it gets better. Apparently you didn't
learn that.

They have failed to teach you that
taking your own life is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

In other words, they have failed to
teach you to be adults, ready for the real world.The real world
doesn't have safe spaces to protect your precious feelings. The real
world doesn't offer you free counseling, hot chocolate, crayons and
puppies when you're disappointed and your feelings get hurt. Honestly
– the real world doesn't care. We expect you to pull yourselves up
by your bootstraps and forge ahead.

Life doesn't stop because you're
unhappy.

The real world doesn't play a scoreless
game lest one side feel badly about themselves. The real world
doesn't hand out participation trophies. You're either going to win
or lose – the choice is yours. But nobody (except perhaps the
government) is going to hand you everything you want just so you
don't feel badly about yourselves.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Carryn Owens, the wife of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens, who was killed in a raid in Yemen, is being vilified by the left. She is being called a pawn of President Trump because of her presence at his address last night. President Trump praised her husband and his sacrifice, as well has hers.

To those attacking her - has it ever occurred to you that the grieving widow would actually be happy that her husband's service and sacrifice for his country is being publicly honored by the President of the United States and most of the elected officials in attendance? Has it occurred to you that in the pain of her grief, she has been given something by the President that she and her children will remember forever?

You want to pretend that Ryan Owens shouldn't have died because the raid never should have taken place. Do you know anything about Navy SEALS? They do what they're told and they volunteer for special missions. They live for them. They put themselves in harm's way intentionally. It's something inside them that is part of them and part of the way they live their lives.

And unless you have inside information into the mission, its purpose, and all of the intelligence that led to it, you who are saying it shouldn't have happened are speaking out of ignorance.

Before you criticise the President and the military for things they do you should at least have some knowledge of which you speak. Your opinion is irrelevant.

Before you criticise a grieving military widow for the choices her husband made try a little of that compassion and tolerance you're always preaching about. Carryn Owens was the wife of a Navy SEAL. She knew the risks. She knew her husband was going to be in danger on a regular basis and she knew he volunteered for it. You don't see her slamming the President, do you?

About Me

I retired from Federal law enforcement in 2007 after 30 years of government service. I'm a conservative but not a Republican. And we have some problems here but the United States of America is still the greatest country in the world.